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Color fonts

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#65570From: Apr 29, 1987 7:29 PM
BTW, The fonts from the demo work just fine with Prism. You can avoid the hassles usually encountered with extra fonts, by naming a disk "FONTS", and put it in the external drive. It seems that DOS looks at the drives before the subdirectories!.
#65650From: John FoustApr 30, 1987 10:52 AM
I hesitated from recommending the FONTS disk name, it didn't seem right to me. The Calligrapher demo disk is named that, they were pulling the same trick. I think the explanation is that the insertion of a disk is an overriding 'ASSIGN' that supercedes any 'ASSIGN's before that point. Try inserting a disk named 'C' sometime. 🙂
#65676From: Apr 30, 1987 6:14 PM
Jeff Braun said they discovered it by accident. I have been using it for about a month now with no problems. Even though our requester seems to allow an unlimited amount of fonts, most others don't and too many crash programs. I just keep a stack of font disks and stick 'em in!. Of course I'm also one of those that has about 314 disks all named "Data" <grin> Stan
#65676From: Apr 30, 1987 6:14 PM
Jeff Braun said they discovered it by accident. I have been using it for about a month now with no problems. Even though our requester seems to allow an unlimited amount of fonts, most others don't and too many crash programs. I just keep a stack of font disks and stick 'em in!. Of course I'm also one of those that has about 314 disks all named "Data" <grin> Stan
#65650From: John FoustApr 30, 1987 10:52 AM
I hesitated from recommending the FONTS disk name, it didn't seem right to me. The Calligrapher demo disk is named that, they were pulling the same trick. I think the explanation is that the insertion of a disk is an overriding 'ASSIGN' that supercedes any 'ASSIGN's before that point. Try inserting a disk named 'C' sometime. 🙂